Yay! Let the summertime festivities begin! By festivities, I mean research from 7-5. I honestly love teaching very much, but it is so refreshing for summertime to arrive - my daily job activities change literally overnight. I am in the process of grading final projects for the undergrad structural steel design course, but I think I might be able to finish them tonight.
The next step is to clean my desk. When I was in college, I never understood how all the profs functioned in their little offices with paper piles stacked to the ceiling in every nook and cranny. Well, now I understand. In fact, I better than understand. I now look back and remember a few professors who did NOT have piles of stuff everywhere, and I have no clue how they did it. The only reasonable explanation I can think of it off-campus storage. Seriously. I throw these piles away weekly it seems, and they just come right back. They freak me out. I tell myself it gives me street cred with the students, but I think the piles may just scare them.
After I get my desk clean (next week at the earliest), it's paper-writing, proposal-writing, and lab activity season. :-) I have a grand total of three papers that are 80% written and just need revised before I can send them out. Revising these things is the hardest part. I rarely suffer from writer's block, so my revisions are more of an exercising in deletion. I tend to be a little verbose sometimes. Anyway, it will be good to get this sort of thing out the door in a few weeks.
The other cool thing we're doing is some really BIG testing of bridge girders. The test frame that we're going to use for loading the bridge girders is going to be constructed next week, and I'm pretty excited about that.
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